2011's Independent Sounds of Yorkshire and the Humber CD features a selection of Yorkshire acts offered showcases at SXSW Music Conference, Texas and a few more. In addition we asked BBC Raw Talent Introducing to chose an unsigned act from the Humberside region and included ‘End Of Level Baddie’. As before the CD will be handed out to music industry and taste makers from all over the world. We hope that the talented artists taking part get the recognition that they deserve.

In addition to the annual CD, this year we have also teamed up with Generator to produce a special Yorkshire and North East SXSW Party (click live page above) and a dropcard of downloads from bands based in Yorkshire and the North East regions of the UK. (Click button below)

2010’s Independent Sounds of Yorkshire and the Humber CD features a selection of Yorkshire acts offered showcases at SXSW Music Conference, Texas. In addition ‘Man Made Noise’ was chosen by BBC Raw Talent Introducing. The CD will be handed out to music industry and taste makers from all over the world. We hope that the talented artists taking part get the recognition that they deserve.

2009’s Independent Sounds of Yorkshire and the Humber CD features a selection of Yorkshire acts showcasing at SXSW Festival, Texas or with representatives attending SXSW via UKT&I’s Yorkshire Trades Mission 2009. In addition ‘Casper Hauser’ was chosen by The Peoples Music Awards and ‘Awash With Antler’ by BBC Raw Talent Introducing.

Independent Sounds of Yorkshire and the Humber 2009 was handed out to music industry and taste makers in the USA, Europe and Japan. We hope that the talented artists taking part get the recognition that they deserve.

Previous Years

PREVIOUS YEARS CDs were also handed out all over the world at events ranging from SXSW to MIDEM to Popkomm to Sync parties in LA to New York Fashion Week, from Beijing Midi Festival to Tokyo's Summer Sonic. They included:

CENTRE STAGE FINALS, LEEDS

Support this great event at the O2 in Leeds on 17th July. Finals of Centre Stage in aid of Martin House Hospice for kids. U21 band competition with a prize to play at Leeds & Reading

LOADS OF HOT YORKSHIRE ACTS PLAYING SXSW

Great to see so many Yorkshire acts and music businesses going out to SXSW. Its a bumper year.
If you are heading out this year make sure you check out Yorkshire acts KAISER CHIEFS, TODDLA-T, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, THE CHEVIN, THE VIOLET MAY, PAUL WOOLFORD, THE WEDDING PRESENT, SCARS ON 45, THE DUNWELLS
+ also BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH, SLOW CLUBand SPECTRALS who we featured on previous Cds / showcases.
We should claim ED SHEERAN too as he's originally from Halifax and we've just learnt that two local singer songwriters Jasmine Kennedy and Emily Sargent are now off to Texas too!

SHOWCASE OPPORTUNITY IN CANADA JUST AFTER SXSW

FUNDING FOR SXSW

Yorkshire bands! Apply to PRSF's British Music Abroad Scheme by 2nd December here. For Yorkshire music companies going to SXSW: UKT&I have a support package and funding available. Funding and also mentoring from Carlo Cavagna (Los Angeles) and Phil Patterson (London). Contact Jo Hubbard email: j.hubbard@uktiyorkshire.co.uk.

1/11/11 LEEDS IN SXSWORLD MAGAZINE

SXSW let us know some ace local bands have applied for 2012. More info soon. In the meantime our Leeds Briefing is featured in SXSWorld Magazine. Yorkshire Power! Can you see yourself? P18 (online) P16 (print) here

1/10/11 SXSW SHOWCASES DEADLINE 4TH NOVEMBER

Yorkshire bands, apply for your official SXSW showcases here.
Also check back at musicyorkshire.com regularly regarding specific Yorkshire showcases, the CD etc. Rest assured that we are working hard to keep the Yorkshire project going. More news soon.

1/10/11 MUSIC INDUSTRY COURSES

The excellent Manchester Midi School have launched a music business course here Generator NE have also announced music biz courses for the North East, Yorkshire and London
here

1/9/11 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CONFERENCES BRIEFING WAS RAMMED

Sxsw / midem etc briefing went well. As usual the yorkshire leg was the busiest and best (of course). Well done everyone who attended! Hope you get lots of goodness from it. Many thanks to SXSW (Texas), MIDEM (Cannes), The Great Escape (Brighton), BPI, AIM, Musicians Union, UKT&I for coming up to Leeds. Timeless Music Project x
footage here

1/9/11 BINGLEY LIVE FESTIVAL

This weekend. Ace line up and sold out. Outstanding for Yorkshire
details here

25/08/11 SXSW + MIDEM BRIEFING LEEDS / YORKSHIRE EVENING POST

lots of coverage coming in for our 1st September SXSW / MIDEM / international music conferences briefing at the HIFI Club Leeds - including this from tonight's Yorkshire Evening Post here

Register now. Send your name, address, company / artist name, role and your email address to: pat@timelessmusicproject.co.uk and we'll get back to you asap

16/08/11 TWO MORE ACE YORKSHIRE FESTIVALS

LIMETREE FESTIVAL:
26 - 28 AUGUST 2011. Not going to Leeds Festival?
Fancy something smaller and funkier. Ace festival vibes nr Ripon, York
this year with added Dance Music Therapy Village
details here

01/08/11 TWO COOL MUSIC EVENTS IN LEEDS

LEEDS MUSIC HISTORY EXHIBITION:
11- 27 AUGUST 2011. Excellent Leeds Music History Exhibition is being held at Leeds Town Hall. More info here
details here

LEEDS FRINGE FESTIVAL:
18 - 24 AUGUST 2011. Leeds Festival Fringe is a 7 day event held across music venues in Leeds in the week prior to Leeds Festival
details here

RIOTS:
Finally deeply saddened by the PIAS/SONY fire in Enfield. Big up AIM and BPI for establishing funds to help the many independent labels affected by this vandalism. Find out how you can help out: here

16/07/11 TRAMLINES FESTIVAL SHEFFIELD SOON

22 - 24 JULY 2011. Free to attend with an excellent lineup consisting of national and local artists.
details here

01/06/11 TWO COOL UK MUSIC EVENTS OUTSIDE YORKSHIRE

We'll be at these excellent music biz events in June which we hope you will find interesting too

30/03/11 YORKSHIRE & NE SXSW PARTY FOOTAGE

Some great photos coming in from our SXSW showcase at the British Music Embassy click here!

25/03/11 CONGRATS TO TIGERS THAT TALKED

Congratulations to Leeds band Tigers That Talked who won $2500 out at SXSW. Read their Beat Surrender SXSW blog here

25/03/11 YOUTUBE FOOTAGE

Found this footage of a huge SXSW gig from York band Asking Alexandria here. Footage from Bradford band Scars On 45's Chop Shop showcase here

25/03/11 BBC RADIO INTRODUCING YORKSHIRE @ SXSW REPORT part 2

Interview with Timeless Music Project - this time from BBC studios Leeds. All about the initiative. Listen again. Streaming for 7 days. 2 Hours 35 minutes in .... click here

23/03/11 BBC RADIO INTRODUCING YORKSHIRE @ SXSW REPORT

Interview with Timeless Music Project live from Austin. All about the initiative. Streaming (just one day left) and 32 minutes in click here

23/03/11 REACTIONS

Lots of great feedback coming in from the Yorkshire & NE SXSW Party. Dinosaur Pile-Up are "Best SXSW discovery" in Spin magazine here There's an excellent Pulled Apart By Horses live review: here and David Thomas Broughton was Mojo Magazine's "pick of the day"

19/03/11 YORKSHIRE TOOK OVER SXSW !!

Wow! British Music Embassy was full to capacity and all the acts played amazing sets at the Yorkshire & NE SXSW Party. Pulled Apart By Horses, Dinosaur Pile-Up, David Thomas Broughton plus North East bands Little Comets, Viva City ... You did us proud! Hope you get some great opportunities from this one!

17/03/11 YORKSHIRE TAKING OVER AT SXSW

Pulled Apart By Horses and Tigers That Talked smashed it last night. Great to see this evening's Yorkshire Evening Post article and interview on BBC West Yorkshire Introducing. Off to see New Mastersounds, Asking Alexandria and Bear Driver tonight. Lots of promo out for the Yorkshire and North East Showcase on Saturday and the Yorkshire CD is being snapped up via the Brits Stand. All in all a freakin Yorkshire takeover!

14/03/11 THE OBSERVER KNOWS

Wow its the week of the Showcase. Can taste that Dos Equis. The Observer newspaper clearly KNOWS whats going off - name checking Yorkshire's Dinosaur Pile-Up and Pulled Apart By Horses as two of the main bands to look out for at SXSW. You can see both at our gig on Saturday >> article here

12/03/11 ACE PREVIEW IN GLASSWERK MAG AND DO512

08/03/11 CUTE "LEEDS GUIDE" ARTICLE

Yes lots of Animal names playing SXSW 2011! Tigers That Talked, Bear Driver, Dinosaur Pile-Up and Pulled Apart By Horses! Is this a Leeds thing? Its not just this year either. We've had Lone Wolf and Wild Beasts play back in 2009. Sky Lark(in) too! Read all about it here!

06/03/11 TASTY MUSIC BIZ EVENT IN LEEDS

One of this year's sponsors "Plugged In" has organised a tasty music biz event called Music Futures. Read all about it here!

06/03/11 NORTHERN DAY AT SXSW

Our Yorkshire and North East SXSW Party on the 19th March is part of a special Northern Day at the British Music Embassy venue. Read all about it here!

26/01/11 FAO YORKSHIRE BASED ACTS AND CREATIVE BUSINESSES

If you are a Yorkshire based act or creative business and planning to go out to SXSW, Texas make sure you get in touch as we may well be able to help you out with one or two things - for example the annual Independent Sounds Of Yorkshire & The Humber CD, digital dropcards, advice on funding etc etc

20/01/11 YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST SXSW PARTY 2011!

In this era of cuts we just couldn't raise enough funding for the third Yorkshire SXSW Party but we (Timeless Music Project) have joined forces with Generator to establish a massive joint YORKSHIRE & NORTH EAST SHOWCASE event for SXSW 2011. Once more it will take place at the British Music Embassy venue, Austin on Saturday March 19th, 12 - 3 pm and promises to be an amazing showcase! More details soon.

20/12/10 YORKSHIRE / SXSW

Amazing to hear that SO MANY YORKSHIRE ACTS have already been offered SXSW 2011 showcases. A bumper crop. We really do have the best UK music scene right now. More news on Yorkshire at SXSW in the New Year. Happy Christmas!

07/04/10 BRILL ARTICLE IN SHEFFIELD MUSIC SCENE

05/04/10 MORE PRESS: YORKSHIRE - THE HOTTEST SCENE AT SXSW?

26/03/10 YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY COVERAGE

Nice feature about Yorkshire's SXSW Party in This Festival Feeling: here

22/03/10 YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY PHOTOS

Receiving some amazing feedback about the Yorkshire SXSW Party. Here are some: photos Click the thumbs to enlarge

19/03/10 YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY - PACKED!

It may have been an early kick off but Middleman, Slow Club, The Crookes, Grammatics and One Night Only played to packed music industry crowds at the British Music Embassy! Well done to all the bands for top performances and great vibes!

18/03/10 YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY! TODAY!

Two and a half hours more promotion to go. If you are in Texas for SXSW get yo' asses down to the British Music Embassy (Latitude 30) 12-3 pm for Middleman, Slow Club, The Crookes, Grammatics and One Night Only

05/03/10 BBC LOOK NORTH

Excellent news piece on the Yorkshire Showcase on today's BBC Look North just after the 6 o clock news, with video footage from One Night Only, Middleman, Slow Club and Grammatics! Just before the weather. See it (today only) here

28/02/10 REGISTER FOR THE EVENT

22/02/10 YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY UPDATE

Ooops the dreaded US visa curse struck us down. We'll not be defeated. Here's the new line up: Thursday 18th March 12-3 pm @ British Music Embassy venue features One Night Only, The Crookes, Grammatics, Slow Club and Middleman

19/02/10 FILM FESTIVAL

Soundtrack specialists In The Nursery (Sheffield) perform their live score to the classic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, at the Alamo Ritz Cinema on Wed 17th March as a SXSW special event
(Film Festival)

17/02/10 YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY 2010!

Thursday 18th March 12-3 pm @ British Music Embassy venue features One Night Only, Pulled Apart By Horses, Slow Club and Middleman!

10/02/10 OUR YORKSHIRE SXSW PARTY SPONSORS ARE NORTHERNNET:

NorthernNet proves that it's fast up North with its high speed symmetric broadband network (up to 1 Gbps). NorthernNet is available to businesses as a direct connection and, for the first time ever, as pay-as-you-go via 17 Media Access Bureaux. www.northernnet.co.uk

10/01/10 SXSW CD SAMPLER 2010

Yorkshire bands playing this year's SXSW Music Conference, Texas - get in touch asap for some free promotion

01/12/09 SXSW 2010

Working hard to raise the necessary funding and sponsorship needed to ensure we have another quality Yorkshire presence at SXSW in 2010. Good to see that so many Yorkshire acts applied for showcases this year!

09/08/09 JAPAN!

Great to see the Yorkshire CD snapped up by Japanese Music Industry at the SummerSonic and British Embassy bashes in Tokyo!

06/04/09 Steve Lamacq show - discussing the gig on the Radio

This is great. Steve Lamacq and Alan Raw are talking about the Yorkshire cd AND the showcase gig on BBC Radio 6. Ace. They even plug this website. Thanks guys!

24/03/09 Lordy 20 hours later and back in Yorkshire

Huge relief. We can safely say that Yorkshire made an impact at SXSW 2009!

22/03/09 Wow! Get in!

Yesterday was ace. The venue was capacity throughout, and continued through to Liverpool Sound City's slot. At times "one in - one out" People even loved the mini Yorkshire Puddings! The bands all played very well (well done you). Big up Talk To Angels, Paul Marshall, Rolo Tomassi, Sky Larkin, Wild Beasts ... you did us proud. Hope you get the interest you deserve. Thousands of Yorkshire Cds were snapped up too at the gig and from the stand in the Conference Hall

20/03/09 Getting psyched! The gig is tomorrow. Doors 11.30 am!!

The promo for our gig is out there. Seen the adverts now, got rid of most of the flyers and handed out a tonne of CDs ... As usual there is a serious amount of competition here. 100s of gigs on all at the same time! Fingers crossed.

06/03/09 Greetings from pudding land!

Pretty stoked that SXSW is nearly upon us...

A bit of background info if you’ve never heard of it. SXSW is one of the largest music festivals in the United States, with more than 1,400 performers from around the world playing on over eighty stages in downtown Austin, Texas over four days in March. By day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of informative, provocative panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers of international stature.

Running about trying to find Yorkshire pudding recipes that Americans might understand and tekkin tha whippet out for a few last walks down t’ginnel before crossing ova tha pond.

Not just bands there’s a few Yorkshire music, film and interactive types going over too so check out www.y2tx.com

Let’s be ‘avin’ yer! It’s tahm fer a rub-a-dub-dub!

So don’t be shy come down to Latitude 30 on the Saturday. Get there early at 11.30am and make sure you pick up a copy of Independent Sounds of Yorkshire and the Humber 2009. We might even throw in some curd tart and a pickled egg!